{"id":1037,"date":"2012-04-26T06:45:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duenos.net\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2012-04-26T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T06:45:13","slug":"internet-attention-span-and-kony-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/internet-attention-span-and-kony-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Attention Span and Kony 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Kony 2012 video that got <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">6 million<\/span> 88 million views?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y4MnpzG5Sqc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nRight so 4-20 rolled around and I was saddened to notice the news media appeared to publish more on pot smokers than the cover the night campaign. I did, however, observe some red cups spelling out the words on one of the overpasses running across 290 heading eastbound into Chicago, not far from UIC, which felt uplifting. I think at this point the criticisms of the film&#8217;s focus are well-known, and most of us here would agree that seeing to a self-sustained independent Africa isn&#8217;t going to have much to do with US special forces tracking down some crazy dude, but what I thought was worth point out here was the astronomical drop in attention for the topic as it has gone on. First up, is this girl&#8217;s response, which yielded ~4 million views:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7DO73Ese25Y\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nNow, check the views (176k) on their response to some of the criticism:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cRx8aXaJ_Cs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt seems to me that there wasn&#8217;t much of a worthwhile dialogue about all of this, and if there was it took place amongst a small fraction of the people originally interested. In fact people have probably paid far more attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/32PBZ870ymg\" target=\"_blank\">12 seconds<\/a> of this poor guy&#8217;s emotional breakdown than issues like the real challenges Africa faces.<br \/>\nPeople make me sad sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Kony 2012 video that got 6 million 88 million views? Right so 4-20 rolled around and I was saddened to notice the news media appeared to publish more on pot smokers than the cover the night campaign. I did, however, observe some red cups spelling out the words on one of the overpasses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,109,193,203,338,389],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","tag-africa-2","tag-discourse","tag-internet","tag-journalism","tag-social-media","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}